Larry Croft

To start from the beginning... after leaving San Cristobal de las Casas we took direction to Palenque we had to use two mini vans to take us there, when getting closer to our destiny I decided that we will step out from the van to see this huge waterfall - wow nice! 35m high, potent because the water from the mountains was gathering in the rivers so it was bigger then normal. Another highlight was that you can get behind the waterfall and see through it (well not really, there was to much water coming and the mist was everywhere) I felt like in Tomb Rider with all the scenery. Agnieszka said that maybe we could swim in there... hehe so we did I tried to swim in the river under the waterfall but it was too strong so I have climbed on some surrounding stones where the water was falling and yeahh perfect shower ;)) very energetic experience! From the waterfall went to the camping El Panchan very close to the Maya Palenque ruins, it was so late that we had to walk in the dark to find it a bit scary after what we experienced before with the knifes. After all we got to the nice place we rented cabañas - rooms in the jungle. Somehow we got to some party with 5 Czech girls which we meet earlier in San Cristobal, with local people jugglers and fire acrobat we went to dance and drink. Next day was simply great! We sneak in to the National Park (21peso saved) then we also sneak in to the Maya Palenque ruins (51peso saved yes I know that this is bad and stuff but it was adventure itself, jumping over or under fence, crossing jungle etc. ;) The ruins are just fantastic, imagine very old pyramids as you can see on the movie under, in the jungle with lots of figures all around the walls, paths, stairs, all of this in the jungle climat! Fantastic. I felt like Larry Croft ,) We even explore one part in the deep jungle where we have to cross one river and climb hills, to see forgotten piramide - to get there we stick to some small group of frenchs and to his eccentric guide - it was fun and we did not expect that... We left the are by the front door ;)
Couple days earlier in San Cristobal we stepped in to one restaurant where on the sides there where selling some artesanias - souvenirs and one of the people there was on French girl with her breast tattooed - nice one, good work - two traditional dragons on both sides, some maya style so I got the info where she got it...
So finally after descending to our camping we went to the place where this French girl had her tattoo done. It was very close to our cabañas, so we went there to talk to the girl - Olman tattoo studio. This was this, she just appear from her cottage like she would wait for me to come. Sanya invite us to sit, showed us her work, explaind that Olman it is not tattoo studio but some proyect of bringing the mayan culture to the world by conserving the signs, meaning, style to the people.... So we agree on details. The tattoo place super eco, natural in the jungle - perfect combination. As we settled the design I wanted to have and the time when we will have this done, we went for a walk to a Jungle we explore some waterfalls, and the jungle... wow! So that was almost it, by evening we went to drink couple beers and for last money we eat goood food - after whole what happened that day it was delicious... Next day was a bit crazy, we had to get to the city 5km away, walking but we had no money so we hitch-hiked, some federal police officer took us to the centre. I took money and we got back to Sanya and her husband, so after some changes in the project of my tattoo we started at 2pm, she finished at 8.30pm - almost 6h and the important thing for someone who is interested - 80% of the my tattoo was made manually without using machine - a bit painful I have to admit but 100% worth it :) The stress about whole situation was that we had a bus to Merida at 9pm. Imagine that Sanya was doing last correction to tattoo at 8.30pm so we had little money (i spend all on tattoo) so I had to go to ATM, a bit crazy but finally we got the bus and we were off from Palenque Chiapas... :)
Nice couple days...
Today we swam in some caves in cristal clear water and there was a big hole in the celling like 25 high so the sun was shining on the water and the birds was flying everywhere... ehhh holidays... now we are hitting to Tulum another ruins but this time on the Caribbean cost..